As Mr. Gladstone rightly remarks, the Dardanian name in the Iliad is the oldest of all those names, found in the Poems, which are linked by a distinct genealogy with the epoch of the Trojan war. As already stated, Dardanus was called the son of Zeus by Electra, daughter of Atlas, and was further said to have come from Samothrace, or from Arcadia, or from Italy; but Homer mentions nothing of this. Dardanus founded Dardania in a lofty position on the slope of Mount Ida; for he was not yet powerful enough to form a settlement in the plain. He married Bateia, an Idaean nymph, daughter of Teucer, son of the river Scamander, and begat Ilus and Erichthonius, who became the richest of all mortal men. He had in his pastures three thousand mares, the offspring of some of whom, by Boreas, produced twelve colts of supernatural swiftness. Having married Astyoche, daughter of the river Simois, he had by her a son called Tros. This latter, who became the eponym of the Trojans, had by his wife Calirrhoë, daughter of the Scamander, three sons, called Ilus, Assaracus, and Ganymedes, and a daughter, called Cleopatra. Ganymedes having become the most beautiful of mankind was carried away by the gods, and made the cupbearer of Zeus, who gave to Tros, as the price of the youth, a team of immortal horses.